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New Credit Adjustment?
(Message 789519)
Posted 29 Jul 2008 by John R. @ SETI.USA
Post:
I can't stand to lurk on this thread any more.........
My $.02 from an Average Joe cruncher.
I have been running Seti on my computers for 9 years.
Since it looks like we won't hear from E.T. in my lifetime,
I need something to show me what value I am getting from this project
& also what value I have to the project.
RAC & total credit are the only way I have of seeing what I have accomplished.

My RAC is about 15,000.00
Change to..........1,500.00 or 150.00 or 15.00
You can tell me all day long that 15.00 is the same as 15,000.00
All it tells me is that my contribution doesn't mean as much anymore.

And please, don't try & blow smoke & use that worn out excuse that
credit really doesn't mean anything......that it's all about the science.
If that were true, why do you suppose we have such competition among the
participants of this project.
Bragging rights must have some meaning to the people who have spent literally thousands of dollars to build a crunching farm.
It certainly gives everyone lots to talk about.
I personally have learned much about overclocking & the use of an optimized application & many other computer related stuff from reading the the postings of all the many experts on this board.
Haven't heard much about the science lately.